Title
Extended Bayesian inference incorporating symmetry bias.
Abstract
We start by proposing a causal induction model that incorporates symmetry bias. This model has two parameters that control the strength of symmetry bias and includes conditional probability and conventional models of causal induction as special cases. We calculated the determination coefficients between assessments by participants in eight types of causal induction experiments and the estimated values using the proposed model. The mean coefficient of determination was 0.93. Thus, it can reproduce causal induction of human judgment with high accuracy. We further propose a human-like Bayesian inference method to replace the conditional probability in Bayesian inference with the aforementioned causal induction model. In this method, two components coexist: the component of Bayesian inference, which updates the degree of confidence for each hypothesis, and the component of inverse Bayesian inference that modifies the model of each hypothesis. In other words, this method allows not only inference but also simultaneous learning. Our study demonstrates that the method addresses unsteady situations where the target of inference occasionally changes not only by making inferences based on knowledge (model) and observation data, but also by modifying the model itself.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.biosystems.2020.104104
Biosystems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Bayesian inference,Causal inference,Symmetry inference,Learning,Discounting learning algorithm,Non-stationary situation
Inverse,Bayesian inference,Conditional probability,Biology,Inference,Degree of confidence,Human judgment,Artificial intelligence,Coefficient of determination,Simultaneous learning,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
190
0303-2647
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
8